Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Centre · Manchester Metropolitan University

Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Centre
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RAH! Research in Arts and Humanities

The Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Centre (PAHC) is a vigorous community of over 250 postgraduate and early career researchers in the Arts and Humanities. The Centre’s mission is to do and act in the world in ways relevant to society and its cultures through academically rigorous and ethical research.

PAHC provides research and skills training through our Researcher Development Programme (RDP) workshops and events. The RDP is a focus for our postgraduate research degree community and aims to provide a foundation for the understanding of wider culture and society.

For an insight into our activities, please visit our postgraduate research blog

PAHC was formed in 2017 from the merger of the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Fashion Institute and the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. It offers an integrated programme with a clear and distinctive academic and intellectual identity. Our rationale is built around re-imagining forms of knowledge creation through multidisciplinary, cross faculty approaches which play to the unique strengths of the university’s radical history of generating knowledge through praxis. As a modern university, we have a tradition of engaged research, often delivered through collaboration and reflected in an openness to partnerships inside and outside academia. Alongside traditional disciplinary-based approaches, PAHC highlights applied, practice-based and inter and multidisciplinary methodologies and promotes projects with elements of social, cultural and public engagement.

Subject Areas

Art, Design and Architecture Creative Writing, English and Film/Screen Studies Digital Politics Fashion and Clothing History Information and Communications Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics Philosophy Public Services Sociology and Criminology

Key Contacts:

Professor Steve Miles, Head of PAHC and Postgraduate Research
Nikolai Duffy, Deputy Head of PAHC and Postgraduate Research
Myna Trustram, Research Development Programme Coordinator
AnneMarie Walsh, Research Degrees Manager
Fatima Abid, Research Degrees Officer
Deborah Bown, Research Degree Administrator
James Morrison, Research Degree Administrator
Kate Johnson, Postgraduate Student Experience Support Tutor

Research Centres

Centre for Research in English, Languages and Linguistics (CELL)

Research in CELL encompasses literary criticism, creative writing, film studies, languages and linguistics. Our work is characterised by a commitment to deliver world-class research that supports the economic and social development on a regional, national and global scale

History Research Centre

Our world-class researchers are known for the quality of their work, outstanding creativity and innovation in communicating with the public. HRC research makes people think, it adds value to their lives, contributes socially and culturally to the economy and to Manchester’s reputation as a dynamic, diverse, global city.

Research Centre in Applied Social Sciences

The Research Centre in Applied Social Sciences has been established to produce critically-engaged, high quality research that challenges common-sense ways about how we think about the world and our place in it.

Manchester School of Art Research Centre

Research is an integral part of the School of Art and our thriving community of researchers consistently demonstrate how creative research can be both exciting and engage with the major cultural and societal issues of the day.

Fashion Research Group

Our Research aims to take on new challenges and set standards on a global scale. We’ve developed a world-class academic team and built a network of professional connections that allow us to consult and collaborate with some of the industry’s biggest brands and leading innovators.